"Ukraine will likely maintain its current policy of not accepting new dossiers from U. S. prospective adoptive parents until the Ukrainian government sees significant improvement in the compliance rate on past cases."
Between the years 1996 and 2004, 5,760 children were adopted by U. S. citizens and 900 of those adoptions are missing post-placement reports. The JCICS wants adoptive parents to know that "...submitting post-placement reports, even late, will not jeopardize their finalized adoptions."

October 2005

National Adoption Center of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine suspended
the acceptance of new adoption dossiers from US citizens.

According to the Children Adoption Center, the decision to stop accepting
certain dossiers was based mainly on the past non-compliance of some
families with post-adoption reports, which are required by the Ukrainian
law.

According to the Children Adoption Center, the new procedures do not affect
dossiers that have already been accepted, unless the prospective adopting
parents have failed to register and provide reports about the previously
adopted Ukrainian children.

As the United States is the country whose citizens adopt the largest number
of the Ukrainian children, the Government of Ukraine is deeply concerned
with the fate of hundreds of the adopted children we have no information
about.

Taking into consideration the above-mentioned the Embassy of Ukraine to
the USA kindly requests your cooperation in two matters.

FIRST, we need cooperation in promoting the registration of Ukrainian
children adopted by US citizens and SECOND, in providing the Consulates
of Ukraine with post-placement reports from American adoptive parents
whom you may have contact with regards to this issue.

The Embassy of Ukraine is obliged to act in accordance with the Ukrainian
law which states that the Embassy shall supervise the registration of the
adopted children and maintain the database of the post-placement reports
about them.

Registering your child allows the adopted child to be added onto the list of
Ukrainian citizens residing in the United States.

Please be advised that in accordance with the Ukrainian law, the adoptive
parents signed an agreement with the Government of Ukraine to:

maintain the Ukrainian citizenship of the adopted child until the
age of eighteen,

to register the child with the appropriate diplomatic mission of
Ukraine, as well as

to submit to the diplomatic mission periodical reports about the
child's well-being and

to allow the representatives of the diplomatic mission to contact
the child directly.

It is especially important for the Ukrainian Government to know where the
adopted Ukrainian children have been placed and how they are progressing
in the United States. Through regular reports, the Ukrainian Government is
informed of the children's development with their adoptive parents.

The Embassy of Ukraine thanks all American families that provide us with
information about the progress of their Ukrainian children. We really
appreciate it.

The Embassy of Ukraine kindly asks those who forgot or refused to provide
us with this information to do so as soon as possible. Please send the
reports along with pictures of your children so that we may follow their
development throughout the years.

Please understand that your neglect to inform the Ukrainian authorities
about your adopted children blocks the process of the Ukrainian orphan
children adoption by American families.